The Anthropology Students’ Association at McGill University demands that academic freedom be subordinated to the advancement of “social justice”. In Minding the Campus, Professor Emeritus at McGill Philip Carl Salzman examines the new “enlightened” anthropology. Its aim, writes Salzman, is not to investigate cultures empirically but to confirm a priori truths.

In Vino Veritas – Or, Whatever It Takes to Get the Truth Out of Such a Crew
Winston Churchill drank his way to saving the world from Nazism and, according to Alec Marsh in Spiked, the old bulldog would fit right in with certain current Parliamentarians enjoying a tipple to endure late-night sittings in Westminster. “Well, why not?” Marsh asks. “Politicians wouldn’t be human if they didn’t.” This news doesn’t, however, sit well with certain neo-puritan scolds from – you guessed it – the Green Party, which on the other hand does support providing free narcotics to welfare recipients.


